There is one change that I'm excited about that no one seems to have noticed -- Microsoft finally turned on their typography features by default. At least in my version of Word, kerning and ligatures were enabled in a new document.
I don't care about cloud storage or menus in caps, but I do care about better looking documents.
Update: it seems to be enabled in Powerpoint as well! But not Outlook or Excel.
Yes you had to manually turn kerning and ligatures on in the second tab of the font dialog. And you had to select all the text you wanted to enable it for first. Needless to say, pretty much nobody did it.
Why would you try to create a document in word that "looks good". There are a million problems with using word for typesetting/document design and font rendering is the least of them.
I don't care about cloud storage or menus in caps, but I do care about better looking documents.
Update: it seems to be enabled in Powerpoint as well! But not Outlook or Excel.